Restoring the Republic

Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation is throwing a heck of a party at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia with a view toward dismantling America's permanent Warfare State and the threat it poses to our liberty. The Conference starts this Friday the...

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Maybe He Should Visit That Library

Via Michael Ledeen's blog, I see that the look-how-many-Iraqi-potholes-we've-filled meme lives on in the pro-war blogosphere, long after even Arthur Chrenkoff quit, um, "Chrenkin' off": Glenn Reynolds has an email from Michael Yon, the great milblogger and...

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May Is Worst Month for US Troops in Iraq Since 2004

As the Pentagon announced the deaths of 10 more US soldiers in Iraq on Memorial Day, May has become the worst month since 2004. At the end of the month, May 2007 had the highest death toll for US troops (124) since November 2004. With White House plans to double the...

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Opus’s Great Memorial Day Tribute

The Opus cartoon in Sunday's paper is one of the finest Memorial Day tributes I have seen anywhere.  Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed ruled the 1980s with Bloom County, and today’s cartoon is one of his best since then. (Comments et al. welcome at my blog entry on the...

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